Word: miceli
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...venom contains a protein, contortrostatin, that retards the growth and metastasis of tumors. Markland's team has found that injections of contortrostatin not only prevent the spread of ovarian and breast tumors in mice but also shrink them as much as 75%. The group hopes to start clinical trials of contortrostatin in about two years...
...suggestion that drug designers might be on the right track comes from studies of mice that have been genetically engineered to develop Alzheimer's-like plaques. These mice exhibit at least some symptoms of memory loss, performing less well on tests that measure how long it takes them to get back to the one dry platform researchers have positioned out of sight in a watery maze. There are now strong hints that retarding the development of plaques helps preserve intellectual performance, at least in rodents. And that raises an intriguing question: Might getting rid of plaques once they have developed...
...another is that some genes in man are left running longer than they are in a mouse--so that our bodies grow bigger, our brain cells more numerous and so on. "It's not as if a new kind of brain cell were invented 150 million years ago [when mice and men diverged]," says Robert Weinberg, a professor at M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute. "The arguments will be settled only 10 or 20 years from...
...explain the literally unprecedented Harry Potter phenomenon, starting with Rowling, now 35, whose life has been changed utterly by the product of her imagination. Seven years ago, she was the single mother of a small daughter, living in a two-room flat in Edinburgh, listening to mice skittering behind the walls. Now she is internationally famous and earning, according to various estimates, somewhere in the range of $30 million to $40 million a year. Once, during a bad patch, she dreaded the hostile looks she would attract while lining up at the local post office to claim her weekly income...
...Many times they work well with mice and they don't work well with humans," Folkman said...